Sentences with phrase «by gunpowder»

Though partially blinded by a gunpowder explosion as a boy, Johann König opened his own gallery in 2002, when he was only 21.

Subtle color harmonies combined with veils of Japanese paper that contrast with expressionistic splashes, drips, burnt edges created by gunpowder, and a fluidity of the grounds.

Noted Meyer: «It was important to us to have a theatrical run before Netflix streams it worldwide later this summer and we found a great partner in Film Buff, who was acquired by Gunpowder and Sky right as we were finalizing our deal with them.

Other buzzy films to screen at ATLFF included Jason Reitman's «Tully,» starring Charlize Theron and distributed by Focus Features, and Brett Haley's «Hearts Beat Loud,» starring Nick Offerman and acquired by Gunpowder & Sky, a new global content studio helmed by the former CEO of Viacom, Van Toffler.

Acquired by Gunpowder & Sky, the indie has brought in just over $ 1.5 million while playing as wide as 114 theaters starting at the end of June.

The earliest rockets were solid fuelled, powered by gunpowder, used by the Chinese in warfare as early as the 13th century.

They waged their wars with professional armies equipped with the firearms made possible by gunpowder.

Not exact matches

Trained at the French government's gunpowder agency headed by the famous chemist Antoine Lavoisier, E.I. was certain that he could produce black powder superior to the best available American product at that time.

Few were the things provided by civilization — the rifle, the ax, gunpowder, pots and pans, and occasional trinkets.

Carefully itemizing mercantile bills of sale, inventories of militia and volunteer detachments, the evidence that there was a lack of gun - smiths, records of importation of guns from Europe, the incidence of duels (three in the entire South in the 1760s, none fatal), children's books and toys, comments by eyewitnesses about the abysmal shooting ability of settlers (lacking both the weapons and the gunpowder to practice), court records, and a wide variety of other historiographical resources, the author assembles an overwhelming mass of data to show that military prowess was not, in fact, characteristic of early Americans.

There is very good reason to believe that the so - called Gunpowder Plot was actually a false flag operation by the English government to win support for their oppression of the Catholics.

Check AW post match conference in the last 4game «we switch off in the second half, our mentality drop in the 2nd half... so on The team has been sited on keg of gunpowder for a while it was an awaitin disaster, just like man u got blew away by swan

I also like «hoist on your own petard» I spent years thinking it was something to do with being stabbed with a sword, but it actually means being blown up by your own gunpowder.

But it can always be identified by scent: It smells like burnt gunpowder, according to marine biologists.

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The evil Lord Shen (voiced by Gary Oldman) has just introduced gunpowder to China and plans to aim it at the country's greatest martial artists, a group that implausibly includes a pudgy panda bear named Po (Jack Black).

By focusing on the internal machinations of Catesby and his Protestant antagonists, Gunpowder locates a human drama at the heart of an event codified in history books as a conflict between monoliths.

The main plot revolves around Po (voiced by Jack Black) and the Five on a mission to stop a warlord who has discovered that, as well as fireworks, gunpowder can be made to propel cannonballs; and is threatening to conquer China using his new weapons.

The bulk of Gunpowder is a reasonably exciting costume drama combining history and suspense, with fine performances by Sherlock's Mark Gatiss as the King's vindictive secretary of state and Peter Mullan (Top of the Lake, Ozark) as Henry Garnet, a Jesuit priest sympathetic to Catesby's efforts.

The three - part BBC miniseries written by Ronan Bennet focuses on Robert Catesby (Kit Harington), who after seeing his fellow English Catholics persecuted by Robert Cecil (Mark Gatiss), plans to assassinate of King James (Derek Riddell) and blow up the Palace of Westminster in what would be called the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 London.

«The Goldfinch» was inspired by a real painting of the golden bird from Carel Fabritius, a young artist who died in the Delft gunpowder magazine explosion of 1654, which also blew up his studio and much of his work.

Also starring Alison Brie, Kate Micucci, Aubrey Plaza and John C. Reilly, The Little Hours was picked up by distribution outfit Gunpowder & Sky.

Studio: Gunpowder & Sky Genre: Horror, Comedy Cast: Alexandra Shipp, Brianna Hildebrand, Josh Hutcherson, Craig Robinson, Kevin Durand, Jack Quaid, Timothy V. Murphy, Nicky Whelan, Austin Abrams, Kerry Rhodes, Marycarmen Lopez Director: Tyler MacIntyre Writers: Chris Lee Hill, Tyler MacIntyre, Based On an Original Screenplay by Justin Olson

The deal was negotiated by Endeavor Content and Erika Canchola of Ramo Law on behalf of the filmmakers and Janet Brown and Jake Hanly negotiating on behalf of Gunpowder & Sky.

Together, they must bring down a new threat, Lord Shen (voiced by Gary Oldman), the former heir to the ruling Peacock Emperors of China, who was banished from the kingdom after trying to harness the power of gunpowder.

Similarly, the Chinese would never have been subjugated by Europe, had they opted to maximize the militaristic potential of the gunpowder they'd invented.

Gunpowder & Sky is opening Toronto's sexually charged Below Her Mouth by April Mullen day and date, while Oscilloscope is opening Cannes title One Week And a Day in a traditional roll out.

Carell hooks up with New York native Bennett Miller (whose directorial CV includes 2005's Capote and 2011's Moneyball) along with the incredibly versatile Mark Ruffalo and an ever - more watchable Channing Tatum on the set of the inauspicious Liseter Hall Farm — some 200 acres of land acquired and later expanded upon by the wealthy Du Pont family, a prominent American clan built primarily upon the manufacturing of gunpowder.

THE LITTLE HOURS Gunpowder & Sky Director: Jeff Baena Written by: Jeff Baena Cast: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Mucucci, Aubrey Plaza, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 6/8/17 Opens: June 30, 2017

Cross-Cultural Dialogue Writing: Guy Fawkes» Gunpowder Plot Expand students» cultural horizons by shaping a fun dialogue - writing exercise around Guy Fawkes Night, a November 5 historical observance that's popular in England.

Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown Culinary genius takes the high seas when a renowned chef is captured and taken aboard a pirate ship.

Two - page sections offer short introductions on «Farming» (planting in rows, wheelbarrow, iron plowshare), «Weapons and Warfare» (gunpowder, stirrups, crossbow), or «Everyday Innovations» (kite, umbrella, fishing reel), followed by illustrated paragraphs exploring individual technologies.

Then there was the Gunpowder Plot, the attempt by Catholic rebels to blow up King and Parliament together, along with new plague outbreaks and a highly theatrical state visit by King James's father - in - law, the King of Denmark.

During fierce engagements, your vision of the battle is obscured by billowing clouds of smoke from gunpowder and cannon fire.

The original, early 19th - century brick building, formerly a gunpowder store, was transformed by Zaha Hadid Architects with the addition of a new tensile structure, creating a combination of old and contemporary architecture.

These include new acquisitions, portraits, watercolors, textiles, a retrospective of Cornelia Parker's work, art from the 1960s, sculptures and wallpaper by Sarah Lucas, and a gigantic «gunpowder painting» by Cai Guo - Qiang, in the new landscape gallery.

This element of the installation is an exciting and somewhat subversive reference to the renovation of the space into a gallery, highlighting as it does the hybridisation of styles that the Serpentine Sackler itself displays: the original gunpowder store's red - brick functionality, with its classicised facade, and the organic white plastic and glass extension attached to its left side by Zaha Hadid Architects, 208 years later.

These films depict siluetas, potent traces of the artist's body in the landscape, transformed by the ocean tide or ignited gunpowder.

The pieces teeter on the precipice of annihilation; by forging the work of canonical artists in gunpowder, Mastrangelo simultaneously pays homage to the work of earlier iconoclasts and seeks to destroy them for himself.

The featured work, an image of residual gunpowder created by shooting a sketch pad with a shotgun, is titled» 6/20/02 - Shot no. 2» 2005.

The exhibition includes a series of newly commissioned gunpowder drawings inspired by Denmark's nature, culture, and history.

The resulting space is characterized by a continuous gallery running around an inner core, constituted by the two raw brick barrel vaulted rooms where once the gunpowder was stored.

The Gallery, opened in 2013, is housed in a former early 19th century gunpowder store with an impressive expansion, designed by Iraqi - born British architect Zaha Hadid.

The art work includes paintings made with gunpowder, commissioned robots, inventions created from the imagination of peasants and a giant aircraft carrier surrounding by suspended planes, UFOs and other flying machines.

But the most important drawing to enter a Houston museum this year - Cai Guo - Qiang's intricate 10 - by -160-foot work created with exploding gunpowder in a 1960s - style happening worthy of Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle and other de Menil favorites, yet infused with the spirituality that was so important to Dominique - was commissioned by the MFAH.

«The Sackler exhibition will re-possess some sort of sub-horror genre; the old powder rooms, haunted by the phantom smell of gunpowder, paranoia and anticipation of violence, will emphasise a particularly phantasmatic aspect of Ribbons; the protagonist's questionable corporeality, their presence, their performance of loss and monstrousness» — Ed Atkins

«Seeking a working method that would bring him «a feeling of freedom», Cai Guo - Qiang experimented with various materials, and in 1989 he unveiled a series of drawings rendered in gunpowder, a substance first discovered by Chinese alchemists in search of the elixir of life for the Emperor and yet used subsequently to kill.

1989 he unveiled a series of drawings rendered in gunpowder, a substance first discovered by Chinese alchemists in search of the elixir of life for the Emperor and yet used subsequently to kill.

Carrillo constructed sculptures incorporating slide viewers of astrological images and test tubes of graphite and gunpowder and created paintings of constellations formed by traced outlines of Orozco's hands.

The beauty of fireworks, and their association with gunpowder and war, is tied to the devastation caused by bombs.